The Black Cat I noticed that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" wasn't mentioned as an example here. It really should as it is properly the earliest example of this type of trope. Poe was an expert of crepypasta, he invented the whole genre "Horror fiction"
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Go ahead and add it, then — it sounds like a good example!
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Would Mass Effect, in a way, work?
Except, you know, instead of them just assuming its a myth or you're insane, they all end up dead because they didn't listen and get ready...
The link to "Cuckoos Nest" simply leads to the "start this new page" page, instead of an actual trope. Was there formerly a "Cuckoos Nest" trope that this was intended to link to?
Response to: "Oh, that chapter doesn't stop at implication. If Max talks to one of the female servants before he picks up the Tome of Eternal Darkness, she makes (relatively) normal conversation. After picking up the tome, she giggles and tosses "something that looks like a human organ" into the cooking pot. However, if you kill her, you take a massive loss of Sanity, just as if you had killed someone innocent... and no Bonethief pops out of her."
Innocent characters in any chapter apparently have two dialogs. One for when you're at full sanity and another for when it's below a certain point. Try saving threatened innocents in various chapters to talk to them at full and low sanity. The messages are cool.
Do nonfiction works qualify for this? I'm thinking of Mark Vonnegut's Eden Express and Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, both are first person accounts of insanity.